The Light school started operating in September 2006 with two teachers, and 40 students. The students are ranging form kindergarten (4 years old) untill fourth grade (13 years old), most children of working age were out of school. The school project is now in operations for over 9 months (2007) now and it is catering to 120 stateless children from Burma. The school currently has six (6) teachers and one cook since it offers free meals to children and the grade level has been expanded to grade V.
PPDD in the near future envisions the school to provide not only normal and basic/primary education to these children but also to educate the children and their parents on basic human rights and child rights issues and environmental issues in a child and parent friendly manner. It aspires as well to work on legal issues concerning stateless children’s status of which it aims to provide some sort of mechanisms on how these children be given legal status or recognition or citizenship for that matter in other countries other than their own or even in their own country itself.
The project is entitled “LGIHT SCHOOL: Alternative Education and Community Development for Displaced Children”. The objectives and end goals of the project are to provide for basic education, safer conditions, child friendly environment and critical and analytical teaching methods for displaced and stateless children in the Thai-Burma border area. The project consists of five (5) phases.
Phase 1: Building of the new school and the provision of necessary educational and teaching materials and facilities
Phase 2: Opening of the school, education of local youth and guidance for teachers and the school, and implementation of certain alternative teaching methods
Phase 3: Active involvement of the community, awareness-raising on human rights, community education, introducing community development activities and projects will facilitate improvement of local conditions and reduce child labor in the area
Phase 4: Legal Assistance to Stateless Children
Phase 5: Expansion of the school operation to higher grade level and continued community development and organizing and human rights education of the community
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